Research Infrastructure

ARS offers secure, performant data storage and processing environments for a diverse range of research needs, including high-performance computing, inter-institutional collaborative research, and centralized data center services for large datasets.

Facility for Advanced Computing (FAC)

The Facility for Advanced Computing (FAC) at UCSF, managed by UCSF IT's Academic Research Systems, provides secure, affordable, and scalable data storage and computing services to the university's researchers.

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High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Provides secure, high-performance data storage and compute environments for a diverse range of research needs. Currently, this includes the community Wynton HPC cluster, and the new HPC Core environment is projected to be available in the first half of 2025.

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RAE

The Research Analysis Environment (RAE) provides secure data hosting and compute services for UCSF researchers and their collaborators.

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APeX for Research

Have an idea for a research project that utilizes or connects to APeX? Contact our team to see how we can help.

Contact the AER Team